Paris Fashion Week spring 2014: Balmain review

Booth Moore, Los Angeles Times Fashion Critic

PARIS -- The gilded interior of Le Grand Hotel was covered with spare, white walls for the spring 2014 Balmain show on Thursday afternoon at Paris Fashion Week, suggesting designer Olivier Rousteing might be planning to pare down the brand's ornamental style and take it in a new direction.

The look: A slightly sportier, 1990s-era feel, but still weighed down with a pirate's booty-worth of gilt.